Google Voice HTML5 Based Website
January 26th, 2010
Good bye Black Swan? Looks like Google beat Riverturn to the punch by creating their own HTML5 enabled website for Google Voice. According to the Tech Crunch article, Google’s new website for Voice should appear sometime today and of course will be free. As of now, it’s still the old version…stay tuned!
UPDATE: It appears to be live now.
Link is not working. That sucks for Riverturn – that’s for sure.
Sean – fantastic app btw – I use it daily. One quick question (somewhat related to connectivity). When you set up interval data-sync – is my phone checking with google every 5 mins or is it happening remotely and notifying me when I have a msg? I’m worried about batt life with such frequent queries. It would be nice to have an option of 30mins, 60mins, etc… if that is the case.
As Long as Black Swan is free I think there is room for competition. Thats like saying Tweetie was born now goodbye all other twitter apps. They need to open their doors today at black swan
I just got my beta to try out Black Swan… Your app has so much more to it. I found myself going back to your app everytime. I feel bad for the guys over @ VoiceCentral today.
Sean on GV Mobile please enable proximity sensor while listening to Voice Mail its driving me off the wall.
Thanks
@wilt Your phone is. It will kill battery life, but once Push comes, we’ll be sittin good.
@wilt Oh, and I do plan on adding the ability to choose duration of refresh
@Joey That’s just it – Black Swan can’t be free and won’t.
@Frank Thanks. They do fill a market that needs to be filled…well, until now, since Google will fill that market for free. My app is more powerful (naturally), but that doesn’t matter to those that don’t want to jail break.
@sean
well they are F’ed lol
@Joey lol, yeah I got that email from someone on that (you?). I never thought of it…and I’ll need to see if I can actually implement it without having to hack the system. I might have to build my own proximity senor using the accelerometer…ouch.
@sean
It would be a nice cause yesterday it was killing me. Good luck (Fingers crossed for Proximity Sensor)
Wasnt me that email you but I did tweet you that you should send Steve Jobs and Phil S. a box of brownies
The speculation is all wrong… When Steve Jobs says tomm. wait one more thing, it will be GV Mobile+ in the App Store… Fingers crossed…
@Frank
Boom
So can this help the GV Mobile+ app get new features? I have been playing with the google html5 app and it can dial out directly without getting the call back or waiting for the google prompts. I would love if this could be incorporated into GV now. Keep up the great work!
@Adam B yes!
Just played with Google’s app for a bit. I think Black Swan still has advantages, as it strips out all the Safari toolbars, making it look like the native SDK app. Also it will support offline caching of History/SMS/VM logs, which Google’s app doesn’t as far as I can tell.
The more options we have the better.
@hitekalex Offline caching works for me…
There is one major flaw with Google Voice’s new webapp. It won’t even allow callback! In other words, I can’t use my iPhone to initiate a GV call connected to my home phone (which would avoid using my cell minutes). iTouch users can’t do this, either.
Sean, GV Mobile + still rules.
As I left in a comment over at RWW, I hope this will convince Apple to stop “reviewing” your app and let it through. I’d rather use it than this!
@hitekalex
You can make your own home screen webapp with the script found here: http://www.thingsthemselves.com/
Look at “Use in full-screen mode” for the script for a bookmarklet.
I’ve been playing around with this a bit today and while it seems you’re psyched about the json bits and other exposed features, I’m not terribly impressed with the app. I know it’s impressive as an HTML 5 app (and mobile no-less), but it still is a web page and acts like one (as a web dev / software engineer I’ve had my fair share of experience on both sides of this). I’m a big fan of GV Moblie+, it’s usability, and your planned updates – a free web app won’t change that. Keep up the good work.
I’ve checked out the new Google Voice web app, and it’s better than what they had up previously, and has a few features that GV Mobile + doesn’t yet have. However, I believe those features can be easily added over time if there is a demand for them. But, GV Mobile + has some distinct advantages as a native app, chiefly among them the ability to integrate with the iPhone directory. Nice for those of us who don’t want to upload our entire phone book to the cloud.
Hi Sean,
I want to thankyou for a great app. I’ve used GV Mobile before it was pulled from the app store and recently upgraded to GV M+.
I’d like to say that there is still great value to your app especially for users who have unlimited calling to only a few numbers, such as AT&T A-list or T-mobile My Faves. With the new web interface HTML5 outgoing calls do not use the call-back feature rather a new number is being generated per contact and as such these calls cannot take advantage of being an A-list or Fave. You can push this point in your marketing, you earned it.
Best wishes,
Manor